Window 007 - Death and Assumption of Mary (restored, detail)
Bottom to top, left to right.
• Row 1: Cobblers, donors of the window (leather being brought for shoes? - GLS)
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Window 121 - 1st left, clerestory, apse: Aaron (restored)
Geoffery, a hosier, and his wife as donors, Aaron above
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† Window 145 - North rose: Rose of France glorifying the Virgin (unrestored)
Virgin in center with Infant Jesus. Surrounded by four doves, four angels, and four Thrones. These are followed by twelve kings of Judah, Mary's ancestors. The outer ring contains twelve minor prophets.
The window was donated while Queen Blanche was regent of France (circa 1230). The arms of France alternating with Castile are seen below the rose itself. The entire ensemble is a none-too-subtle bit of royal propaganda, with Mary (the Queen of Heaven) at the center of it all. Note too that the figures below the rose in the lancets contrast a legitimate righteous sovereign with corrupt, foolish, or fallen ones. Blanche seems to have wanted no doubt about how she ought to be considered.
†North side, lancets, left to right: True versus false sovereigns (unrestored)
• Window 145C - North side, far left lancet: Melchizedek standing over Nebuchadnezzar (true king over the false Babylonian pretender to world-lordship, worshipping idol of his dream).
• Window 145B - North side, near left lancet: King David standing over King Saul (the chosen king over the apostate king rejected by God, who dies via suicide in despair).
• Window 145A - North side, central lancet: Saint Anne holding Infant Mary. Beneath this are the arms of France.
• Window 145D - North side, near right lancet: Solomon over Jeroboam, who worships golden calf (wise king over the fool who worshipped idols and abandoned the LORD).
• Window 145E - North side, far right lancet: Aaron above Pharoah, covered by the Red Sea (true priesthood and power over the false).
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Windows 017 - Zodiac and Labours of the Months (restored)
Top to bottom, left to right:
• Row 01: Vinegrowers as donors; Count Thibault VI of Champagne; donated at request of the late "Thomas, Count of Perche," who died in the battle of Lincoln (1217). Note the grateful crowd (see also Window 016)
• Row 02: Bell-ringers and winegrowers as donors.
• Row 03: February (man before fire); Pisces.
• Row 04: March (prune vines); Aries.
• Row 05: May & Gemeni combined.
• Row 06: April (budding plants and vines); Taurus.
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† Window 145 - North rose: Rose of France glorifying the Virgin (restored)
Virgin in center with Infant Jesus. Surrounded by four doves, four angels, and four Thrones. These are followed by twelve kings of Judah, Mary's ancestors. The outer ring contains twelve minor prophets.
The window was donated while Queen Blanche was regent of France (circa 1230). The arms of France alternating with Castile are seen below the rose itself. The entire ensemble is a none-too-subtle bit of royal propaganda, with Mary (the Queen of Heaven) at the center of it all. Note too that the figures below the rose in the lancets contrast a legitimate righteous sovereign with corrupt, foolish, or fallen ones. Blanche seems to have wanted no doubt about how she ought to be considered.
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Window 063 - Saint Lubin (restored)
• Row 01: Wine cryers or tavern keepers offering wine for sale.
• Surrounding border: Wine cryers or tavern keepers offering wine for sale.
† Center circles (continued uses of wine):
• Half circle 1: Winecryers, the donors.
† Left to right, top to bottom (excluding central circles and border):
• Row 02: Nobleman and followers (?); Procession from Church (?).
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Window 014 - Temptation of Christ, Marriage at Cana, Blue Virgin (detail, restored)
Top to bottom, left to right
• Row 01: Temptations of Christ: stones into bread; pinacle of the temple; on the mountain with Jesus saying "get thee behind me."
• Row 02: Marriage at Cana: Jesus goes to marriage feast; at the feast; Mary tells Jesus they've run out of wine.
• Row 03: Marriage at Cana: Mary tells servants to do whatever Jesus tells them; Jesus turns water into wine; Servant takes wine to the feast's governor.
• Row 04: Angels with censers and bearing pillars which support Mary's throne
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Window 041 - Saint Stephen (unrestored)
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 07: Gamaliel, one of the Sanhedrin, advised that the early Christian movement not be attacked by the Jews, reasoning that if it was of men it would come to naught, and if of God they did not want to fight it. Heis sympathetic and buries Stephen in his own sepulchre; Juliana, a widow, searches for her husband's body.
• Row 08: Juliana mistakes Stephen's body for that of her husband, and takes it home.
• Row 09: Juliana transports Stephen's body to Constantinople; Meanwhile, a king (Emperor Theodosius?) is tormented by a demon.
• Row 10: King sends messengers to the shore--this foreshadows other events; Meanwhile, Stephen's body is loaded on a ship for transport to Constantinople.
• Row 11: Demons try to sink the ship, but the sailors invoke Saint Stephen, and are spared.
• Row 12: Ship arrives at shore; A crowd gathers to receive the body.
• Row 13: Stephen's body/relics are taken into the city; the Patriarch of Constantinople comes to meet it.
• Row 14: Stephen's soul is carried to heaven by the angels.
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